Goods exports in the quarter grew 17% from a year earlier to $93.06 billion, while imports were up 13.9% to $84.98 billion
“The ADP implementation rate was 91 percent because Tk 33 billion allocated for the Padma Bridge project remained unutilised,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
He had announced on Jan 8 that 100 percent of the programme would be executed in the 2014-15 FY.
Tk 81 billion was initially earmarked for the Padma Bridge in the last FY but was later reduced to Tk 78.65 billion.
But the project authorities had returned Tk 33 billion of unutilised money at the end of the FY.
The planning minister also partially blamed the violence unleashed by the BNP-led alliance in the crucial January-March period for the ADP target shortfall.